Re: tail -c fails (coreutils 5.92)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-11-01 15:15:43 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> With coreutils 5.92, you don't need _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your
> environment to use "head -5".  "head -5" now has the traditional
> meaning regardless of _POSIX2_VERSION's value.  This change came about
> becase of clarifications to the standard issued January 2005 by the
> Austin Group.  Please see the NEWS file for details.
> 
> You may still need to set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 if you are running
> older coreutils versions.

On this point, I don't know what's the best way, as I'm using the
same rc files on different machines, that may have an older version.
I can either use _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 all the time or detect the
coreutils version in my .zshenv file, perhaps by parsing the value
of "$(command true --version)".

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